When I use a field that has a popup menu assigned to it, one nice aspect of the popup (the same goes for dbpopup) is that it lets me always get a consistent exact value placed in the field. For instance, if I have a field called vendors, and I want to enter JOSEPH'S PIZZA EMPORIUM, the popup not only lets me enter it quickly but consistently, i.e. not sometimes JOE'S PIZZA, or JOSEPHS PIZZA EMP, etc. When I am filtering on that field, I can have a high confidence that I am finding every single record with that vendor's name if it was spelled the same way every time because I used a popup to do it.

Now for the feature issue.

Back when I was using the Palm OS platform, if I wanted to filter on a field that was set up with a popup, I could bring up the popup to enter the value in the field criteria. Even better, if the field was a dbpopup, I could bring up the associated db to fill in the value. I found this to be very helpful and efficient and utilized this often. However, the desktop version wouldn't allow me to bring up dbpopups, only regular popups. When I reported this "bug", I was informed that this was not a feature per se, and only accidentally worked the way it did on the Palm platorm, and did not work that way on several other platforms, so it was not going to be implemented on the desktop or the other platforms anytime soon. This was disappointing to me because 1) it seemed like such an intuitively good feature to have within the filter process, and 2) it doesn't seem like it should be that hard to implement, since the subroutine for bringing up dbpopups and plain popups is already coded, and would just need to be made available to the filter.

Then when I switched to the WM platform, I was really dissappointed to find that not only does the dbpopup not work in filters, but plain old popups don't even work. Every value has to be hand-entered, increasing time, but also increasing the chance for error in the entry. The deskop stil works for popups only.

Does anyone else care about this feature? It seems so useful to me. Maybe I am missing something.

How hard would it be to propogate this feature (that I assume still works on Palm) to the other platforms (especially WM!) and also to the desktop? Could it be slipped into a development release?

Thanks for your post. The feature is indeed nice to have. Supporting the Popup field type is far more easy than supporting the DB Popup. Certainly not impossible, and if a lot of others wanted this feature, I'd definitely implement it in a future version! Just haven't heard many requests for it.